Psalms 69:29

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִ֭מָּחֽוּ מִסֵּ֣פֶר חַיִּ֑ים וְעִ֥ם צַ֝דִּיקִ֗ים אַל־יִכָּתֵֽבוּ׃

Transliteration

yimmāḥû from-sēper ḥayyîm and-with ṣaddîqîm not-yikkātēḇû

Grammar Details

*yimmāḥû*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - let them be blotted out
*sēper*: masculine singular construct noun with prefixed preposition min - from book of
*ḥayyîm*: masculine plural noun - life/living
*ṣaddîqîm*: masculine plural adjective with prefixed conjunction waw and preposition 'im - and with righteous ones
*yikkātēḇû*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural with negative particle 'al - let them not be written

Word Meanings

*yimmāḥû*: let them be blotted out/may they be erased
*sēper*: book/scroll/document
*ḥayyîm*: life/living ones
*ṣaddîqîm*: righteous ones/just ones
*yikkātēḇû*: let them be written/may they be recorded

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Ps 18:48 : 48 He rescueth me from mine enemies; Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man.
Ps 20:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;
Ps 22:27-31 : 27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah; And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is Jehovah's; And he is the ruler over the nations. 29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, Even he that cannot keep his soul alive. 30 A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord unto the [next] generation. 31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness Unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.
Ps 40:17 : 17 But I am poor and needy; [Yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.
Ps 59:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: Set me on high from them that rise up against me.
Ps 70:5 : 5 But I am poor and needy; Make haste unto me, O God: Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, make no tarrying.
Ps 89:26-27 : 26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation. 27 I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.
Ps 91:14-16 : 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and honor him. 16 With long life will I satisfy him, And shew him my salvation.
Ps 109:22 : 22 For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
Ps 109:31 : 31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul.
Isa 53:2-3 : 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
Eph 1:21-22 : 21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
Phil 2:9-9 : 9 Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name; 10 that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and [things] on earth and [things] under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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